VIVE LE CRICKET! One man’s mission to convert a nation

The raffish, occasionally irascible, Rex Constantine Vaughan Williams is a man on a mission. For years the Paris-based Englishman has had the niche role of commentating cricket in French but now the broadcasters are pulling the plug... Why is it, Rex wants to know, that the French were more than happy to adopt rugby and rebrand it as their own but continue to shun the glorious summer game, even though they may well have invented it? Rex slaloms through a brief history of cricket in France, flicks on the red light in the French Match Special commentary box where we meet his gloriously mismatched gallic co-commentators. And that’s when Rex cries Révolution.Vive le Cricket! is a one-man show created by NG Bristow and Barney Spender who takes on the role of Rex, drawing on his own decades of experience as... a cricket commentator in France.